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October 24, 2014

by Susan Gillis Each art form has its own basic elements of which the art form is composed. In dance, the basic elements are space, time, and force (the quality of the movement). The dancer moves three dimensionally through space, exists in time as they move, and exerts effort or force – which impacts how […]

October 6, 2014

New Hazlett board member and professor of dance at the University of Pittsburgh, Susan Gillis sat down with Moriah Ella Mason to talk about Ella’s upcoming CSA performance, Contained. Susan: What inspires you? And how is that reflected in your work? Ella: This is a difficult question to answer because I find inspiration in so many […]

August 28, 2014

by Ben Opie The piano is a marvelous piece of engineering, elegant in its relative simplicity. It’s mostly a series of simple machines, pulleys and levers. Press a key, a felt covered hammer strikes a high tension length of wire, and sound is produced. Of course that doesn’t begin to describe the wide range of […]

August 4, 2014

Local musician and composer, Ben Opie, sat down with CSA artist Federico Garcia-De Castro to talk music, inspriation, and the creative process. Do you have a particular process when composing for any instrument or ensemble? Not exactly a process (each piece and each ensemble is different), but in general I must feel that the piece, […]

July 1, 2014

Alexis Gideon and a team of artistic collaborators present the world premiere of The Crumbling, a 20 minute narrative stop-motion animated opera that combines projected video with live music. Over the course of the next few months, we’ll follow Alexis and his team’s progress here on the New Hazlett blog. We’ll also be adding photo […]